Two robberies take place in Martinsburg

June 19, 2013

MARTINSBURG - Police are seeking to identify a suspect who robbed a pharmacy Tuesday in Martinsburg.

Police said that about 5:57 p.m., Martinsburg Police Department officers responded to Moore's Pharmacy, located at 1311 Edwin Miller Blvd. within the Old Courthouse Square Plaza, for a report of an armed robbery.

An investigation revealed that one of the clerks was robbed by a man who came into the pharmacy and presented a note indicating he had a gun and wanted drugs, police said.

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This security camera image from Moore’s Pharmacy shows a robbery suspect from an incident that occurred about 5:57 p.m. Tuesday evening.

The suspect is described as a white male in his late teens or early 20s, approximately 5 feet 7 to 5 feet 8 inches tall and approximately 160 pounds. He was wearing a flannel long sleeve shirt, a white ball cap turned around backward, sunglasses, light colored blue jeans and black sneakers.

The suspect then fled the pharmacy on foot. The robber was captured on video surveillance cameras, and police later released photographs of the suspect taken from the cameras.

Anyone with information regarding this robbery or the identity of the suspect is urged to call the Martinsburg Police Department at 304-264-2100.

The Martinsburg Police Department is also investigating another robbery that occurred Tuesday at a gas station in the city.

Police said that at about 7:33 p.m., officers responded to the ROCS gas station on Foxcroft Avenue for a report of a possible robbery. Police were told the suspect entered the store and stole several cartons of cigarettes. A clerk was knocked to the ground and suffered minor injuries during the robbery, police said.

The suspect is described as a white male, about 6 feet tall, who was wearing a camouflage hat and shorts, a white tank top and black T-shirt draped over his shoulder.

Police said the investigation into that robbery is pending at this time, and anyone with information about the robbery is asked to contact the Martinsburg Police Department.

Tuesday's robberies happened a day after a man robbed a bank in Berkeley County. In that robbery, a suspect wearing a NASCAR baseball hat, sunglasses and a Pittsburgh Steelers hoodie robbed the CNB Bank branch located off of TJ Jackson Drive in Spring Mills Monday afternoon and fled in a white four-door Honda Civic.